Re: [SLUG] Asus Eee 4G 7 Micro Laptop
Martin Visser wrote: There were dozens at LCA last month - geek envy abounded. Nah, the *real* geek envy was all around John Ferlito's Dell XPS, with the 4G of RAM and the 160G drive that was way more gorgeous than *any* of the Apple laptops I've seen. Erik -- - Erik de Castro Lopo - Unsolicited Broadcast Email is Forced Pay-per-view Advertising. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Asus Eee 4G 7 Micro Laptop
Hi all guys !that's first time i write in, but i'm following SLUG from time. Impressions about EEEPC are wonderful, hackings are well documented. i do really agree with martin, since umpc can't compete with low-price of eee, and they dont have Solid State DIsks, wich are one of advantages in ASUS. if you add that here in italy we have a bonus for temporary workers, it will cost you 99 €. maybe you have smthng similar in AUS ? it is prefect with KISMET, GPSDRIVE, AIRCRACK_NG, and also it is the perfect diagnose pc, with it's little size and good battery (needs some cycles to go full power). its components are top quality, and screen readabilty is hence good, practice is the secret !! LOL surely space is a limit, but you can couple with portable 2.5 usb hdd or a NAS . compiz make it superb (xubuntu, no xandros anymore, also if it is good). note that hw/firmware releases are available only if xandors installed, so watch out ! last note, models sent after january don't support much hacking, since they don't have the supplementary mini-pci ... bye from italy, Max On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Visser wrote: There were dozens at LCA last month - geek envy abounded. Nah, the *real* geek envy was all around John Ferlito's Dell XPS, with the 4G of RAM and the 160G drive that was way more gorgeous than *any* of the Apple laptops I've seen. Erik -- - Erik de Castro Lopo - Unsolicited Broadcast Email is Forced Pay-per-view Advertising. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Massimiliano Fantuzzi, IT Professionist System Builder www.fantuz.net // [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Asus Eee 4G 7 Micro Laptop
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 7:04 AM, Martin Visser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to fill. I'd be pretty confident that they other main vendors will be quickly trying to come up with competition. (And no, even though I And here they come marching: http://www.everex.com/ Review in Wired: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/02/everex-cloudboo.html And comparison with Sony Vaio Premium SZ: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/02/hands-on-with-e.html --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Asus Eee 4G 7 Micro Laptop
So many great and informative responses :D Thanks, Sluggers. Amos Shapira wrote: to fill. I'd be pretty confident that they other main vendors will be quickly trying to come up with competition. (And no, even though I And here they come marching: http://www.everex.com/ The big difference being HDD vs. solid state storage. I am really interested in a backpackable lappy so that I can travel light without worrying about dropping my bag en route. Also thinking about one for a 14-yr old net addict ... she is none to kind to hardware (which teenager is?) who likes nothing better that balancing a notebook on her knees while yacking on the phone, watching TV, eating toast and drinking milo at the same time. That said, I have a Mac powerbook circa 2001 still running fine. It has been dropped from table height to a hardwood floor and carpet about four times now and still shines. Takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin' as they say. (The only damage: the optical drive only reads DVDs now ... it rejects CDs!) cheers rickw -- _ Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services The manufacture and transport of a 1L bottle of Fiji water consumes 26kg of water, 0.9kg of fossil fuel and emits 0.5kg of greenhouse gas. -- Pablo Paster, Sustainability Engineer at Triple Pundit -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Asus Eee 4G 7 Micro Laptop
I got a black one from Bing Lee for $470 on Wednesday. So far I love it! It actually seems smoother and faster than my desktop for some things (eg youtube) and actually has the lastest version of Skype so you can do video calls with the in builtltmicrophone and webcam. Projects for the near future: 1. Get Compiz-Fusion working with Xandros (the OS the Eee PC comes with). Apparently this can be done. 2. Get a 2Gb 667Hz RAM fro upgrade - anyone know how to do this on the new '7C' serial number Eee PCs? 3. Find a way to be able to reinstall Xandros so I can try other operating systems. Well, not try them so much as install Fluxbuntu or Xubuntu. But I want to have Xandros on hand in case it doesn't work. BTW, Xandros is not a bad OS. I'm not sure what I was expecting after their bed games with Microsoft, but the OS is pretty good. I don't usually like KDE, but I really suits the Eee PC. 4. Find out how to get the ultra cheap copies of Windows (tm) the are promised to any Xandros user after the voucher agreementI alluded to above. Hey, I'm all for getting free or very cheap stuff! Other notes: 1. The webcam is good and video Skype is great quality for both parties. 2. Wifi is simple and robust. 3. The screen actually has a better rez than most laptops, its just smaller. The only problem with this is having to side-scroll webpages. 4. If you have sausage fingers, start learning to type one handed. 5. Uses Amarok and open office, both of which work fine (open office works faster than on my desktop!). I'll bring mine on Friday as well. andy Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:52:55 +1100 (EST), Rick Welykochy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyone had a play with the Asus micro laptop? Described here: http://tinyurl.com/ynnn9c It runs some form of Linux, has no HDD, just 4 GB of flash. Sounds ideal for travel ... but perhaps the 7" screen is a bit too small. Going for about $450 at JB Hifi and less on eBay. cheers rickw -- _ Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services A polar bear is a rectangular bear after a coordinate transform. -- Anon. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Asus Eee 4G 7 Micro Laptop
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 00:52 +1100, aggeyl wrote: 3. Find a way to be able to reinstall Xandros so I can try other operating systems. Well, not try them so much as install Fluxbuntu or Xubuntu. But I want to have Xandros on hand in case it doesn't work. BTW, Xandros is not a bad OS. I'm not sure what I was expecting after their bed games with Microsoft, but the OS is pretty good. I don't usually like KDE, but I really suits the Eee PC. If you happen to have a USB CD-ROM, you can use that to boot off the disc that comes with the Eee. I think the manual talks about doing a restore. I didn't have one, so I booted eeexubuntu from a USB stick, which was able to bring up a network connection. Then, before reinstalling, used dd to grab an image of the internal SSD and transfer that across to a box with storage space. Comes the time I want to restore it, just boot from the USB again, blat the image back across the network and write it to the SSD with dd. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Asus Eee 4G 7 Micro Laptop
Hi Massimiliano (welcome to the list), Thanks Simon, very kind. That's great to hear you have had success with Kismet/Gpsdrive as its something I want to play with when I get my hands on one. four words: awesome wardriving, so portable Secondly, do you have more information on the Eee PC's shipped after January not having mini pci ports. This is the first I've heard of this. *www.eee**pc*.asus.com/ http://www.eeepc.asus.com/ official site, i haven't browsed so much but is helpful firts times www.*eee**pc*.it http://www.eeepc.it/ italian site, try to catch CLI codes or ask me on this forum (dont flood, google before) HERE THEY SPEAKS ABOUT SERIAL NUMBERS AND LIMITATIONS www.*eee*user.com http://www.eeeuser.com/ un-official wiki / hacking / mods guide http://apcmag.com/7609/hacking_the_499_eee_pc_subnote good sw mods for un-defaulting XANDROS http://beta.ivancover.com/wiki/index.php/Eee_PC_Internal_Upgrades *all possible intrernal *hacks (not on ^8 series) http://www.eeepc.net/ the blog hope it helps, wikis are growing up fast ! (but delivery is REALLY slow, maybe ASUS didn't perceive a similar succes, but that's great ) i also add fresh flash from http://www.eeeuser.com/2008/02/11/eee-pc-hack-higher-resolution-under-linux/: Jaffa has posted a hack http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=14588on our forums that allows the Eee PC's resolution to go beyond the default limits while using Linux. He has two pictures of what it looks like in the post: in 960×576 and 1280×976. The hack is accomplished by staring a vnc server and opening a scaled client. As a result, you may have a few issues with it. However, it's still a brilliant and easy way to get a little more reading space on your Linux Eee PC (especially if you've been jealous of the Windows XP hackhttp://www.eeeuser.com/2008/01/11/your-eee-pc-in-800x600-1024x768-1280x1024/ !) Note from me: works on windows too ? test it out ! Bye to everyone, great list, bye to all australian guys and girls from italy, great LUG ! -- Massimiliano Fantuzzi, IT Professionist System Builder www.fantuz.net // [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] sim card reader on LInux
Anyone used something like this on Linux? I am worried about loosing my phone and it does not have bluetooth or IR. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: Women's pre-SLUG meetup, Lindt Cafe, Darling Harbour, Fri Feb 29, 5:30pm
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008, Mary Gardiner wrote: Date: Friday 29th February 2007 2008 of course! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Asus Eee 4G 7 Micro Laptop
Hi, Can someone enlighten me please with respect to this comment here below about a cheap/free copy of an SM licence with one's eee? Which OS is it? How do I go about getting it? I could use another SM licence. Kind Regards Kyle aggeyl wrote: 4. Find out how to get the ultra cheap copies of Windows (tm) the are promised to any Xandros user after the voucher agreementI alluded to above. Hey, I'm all for getting free or very cheap stuff! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: Women's pre-SLUG meetup, Lindt Cafe, Darling Harbour, Fri Feb 29, 5:30pm
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 12:34 +1100, Mary Gardiner wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008, Mary Gardiner wrote: Date: Friday 29th February 2007 2008 of course! Don't feel bad, Mary. After three release candidates and staring at the NEWS file entry I'd been working away at for almost a month, two minutes after I did the release for our project, I discovered that it was headlined 12 Feb 2007. Oh well :) AfC Sydney -- Andrew Frederick Cowie Operational Dynamics is an operations and engineering consultancy focusing on IT strategy, organizational architecture, systems review, and effective procedures for change management. We actively carry out research and development in these areas on behalf of our clients, and enable successful use of open source in their mission critical enterprises, worldwide. http://www.operationaldynamics.com/ Sydney New York Toronto London signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
